- Capt. Jaklin has been trying to nail Joe Kiley for years but witnesses keep disappearing or coming to other tragic ends. Harry is asked to guard a witness against Kiley but someone seems to have betrayed them.
- When Dr. Kira witnesses a crime boss commit murder, she becomes his next potential target. Since the police captain isn't sure he can trust his own department, he enlists Harry's help. Harry takes on the role of bodyguard reluctantly. Meanwhile. Dr. Kira is none too happy about having her life disrupted. At first, she is resentful of being cooped up with Harry in seclusion. After an attempt is made on their lives, she is more understanding of and thankful for Harry's expertise.
- As a newspaper has on its front page a story about police maneuvering against gangster Joe Kiley, a man sees another man approaching an intersection. As local Doctor Noelle Kira drives by, the man is shot. She sees the gunman, then drives off.
Police later find Dr. Kira. The dead man was a witness who could have put away Kiley. It is the latest killing of a witness against Kiley and both Lt. Quinlan and his immediate superior, Captain Pete Jaklin, decide to go outside the department by bringing in Harry Orwell to keep Noelle alive, an arrangement agreed to by the prosecutor, Cole Harris.
Harry isn't enthusiastic about babysitting a witness and Noelle is even more upset at having her life disrupted in this way. She and Harry drive off, then he ditches the car and they take a cab. Later at a bus stop they board the bus, all stemming from Harry's experiences at thwarting anyone trying to follow them.
But two gunmen are following closely, guided by a homing signal. Harry and Noelle arrive at a beach house for seeming safety. But Harry's police instincts prove correct; he surreptitiously spots the gunmen and springs a trap that kills one of them.
Harry and Noelle flee on foot and eventually reach a barn. The surviving gunman pursues in his car but inside the barn is outmaneuvered, and Harry and Noelle steal his car and escape.
Further up the road Harry notices the CB-type receiver under the dash. Searching herself Noelle finds a small transmitter in her pocket. Realizing a mole is in the department, Harry and Noelle hide out at her house - the one place gunmen wouldn't think to look - before Harry confronts Pete Jaklin, who insists he isn't the mole, and then remembers the one left with Noelle before she changed her clothes. Now Harry has to track down Noelle when the mole finds her - and Harry is able to use the transmitter in her pocket to do so.
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